Cannot open .tax2020 download on the TurboTax software. It's only showing .tax2019 files

[yogipuppy83]

I really do not want to have to redo my entire return because of a technical glitch.

[SweetieJean]

Be sure you meet this:

Minimum system requirements for TurboTax Windows s... (intuit.com)

[pickleman21]

Any luck?  Have the same issue and support doesn't seem to have an answer.

[macuser_22]

You can only open a 2020 .tax file with the 2020 software installed on your computer.

[pickleman21]

I just stumbled on the solution.  If you do your taxes online and go to tools, and save your work as filename.tax2020, you can then go to your desktop version of Turbotax 2020 and start a new return.  Click save and it will prompt you for a new file name -- give it something.  In the window it will show this new return but you will then see a link stating - "find a tax file" which you can then browse to your downloaded version which will then import. 

Nothing like making it difficult TurboTax.